A man, who says he's religious, has a child with his maid and then sends her away. Should I get involved?

That lady sounds like a terrible person. If you confronted them it would not change anything.Get with the maid and get her payback. It sounds like she would have one heck of a good case.

What you've witnessed is what I call "transference and interpretation" within religions. I'm sure there's an accepted anthropological term for it, but that's what I call it. In tribal religions, where witchcraft, possession, demonology, and spell casting are acceptable parts of the animist tradition, an influx of Christian teachings is made to fit the existing schema for belief. It's rather like what happened to Christianity. Part of the development of that faith was to co-opt existing belief traditions, so instead of Zeus and Jupiter, we have the generic "God". On the other hand, believers in Zeus and Jupiter found in Christianity many ideas and philosophies that resonated with what they felt was right. In reverse fashion, Christian thought became co-opted to fit the existing schema of belief. That's what's happened here, with your African example. The animist faith that includes belief in spirit possession, witching, spell casting, and curses comes into contact with a belief system that includes a holy spirit and the myth of the Pentecost (possession), blasphemy (cursing oneself), and other related ideas...the end result is the horror and tragedy you've witnessed. It isn't Christianity that's to blame, or the animism that blended with it. The problem is that people the world over are too stuck in a need for problems to be solved by a deity instead of accepting responsibility for themselves. The more education is spread throughout the world, the less we will see a need for zealousness and religiosity, and the less we will see terrible events such as the ones you've pointed out.

You made this up off of the biblical story. Such things are t even neccesary nowadays because the wife would have used a real surrogate instead of her fricking housekeeper. And it's a stupid story anyway. All of them are damn idiots.

If you study the Bible you would see the reason behind it.

(Daniel 12:9-10) And he went on to say: “Go, Daniel, because the words are made secret and sealed up until the time of [the] end. 10 Many will cleanse themselves and whiten themselves and will be refined. And the wicked ones will certainly act wickedly, and no wicked ones at all will understand; but the ones having insight will understand.

Whatever the moral rights and wrongs of this, the child does have a right to be supported by its father. Concentrate your efforts on getting that support even if it is just financial.

The yelling isn't going to change anything, except perhaps making you feel better. The person, if anyone to talk to them, will be their minister. You could speak to them about the situation.

Addendum: I forgot that Americans don't understand irony

Are you just copying the story about Abraham and his wife Sarah?

Being a surragate mother is against the commandments. Sarah did not have God's permission to do this, she just took it upon herself to have a child using her maid. If they'd would have waited Sarah DID finally have her child with her husband. But we don't always wait on God's timing , do we?

I really don't believe your story.

I stopped at "She was too old, or she thought she was", this sounds like the Abraham-Ismael myth. Technically, Hagar wasn't merely a maid, but a second wife.

You're too late. That happened over 3,000 years ago.

LOL!

I'm answering just so I can come back and see what answers you get later.